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Laura Hazard OwenJuly 12, 2019

Nuclear disasters, information vacuums: How a lack of data in Fukushima led to the spread of fake health news

Plus: All the media literacy resources, and giving parents information about the flu vaccine.

Is “news on the internet” the same as “news on your phone”? Here’s how Pew asks

Christine SchmidtJuly 8, 2019

Can a squat wooden disk lead to better civic conversations and smarter journalism? Cortico has $10 million to try it out

“The source of power is the people in the community volunteering to foster these sorts of conversations and have them be accessed by trusted local media partners.”

Laura Hazard OwenJune 28, 2019

Yes, it’s worth arguing with science deniers — and here are some techniques you can use

Plus: A fake news game that seems to inoculate players against fake news.

Subhayan Mukerjee and Sílvia Majó-VázquezJune 28, 2019

During the Indian election, news audiences consumed a wide and diverse range of sources

“Given the dearth of empirical studies about news audience behavior in the world’s largest democracy, our study provides a benchmark for future comparative research on news consumption across platforms and across countries to build on.”

Christine SchmidtJune 24, 2019

Publishers will soon no longer be able to detect when you’re in Chrome’s incognito mode, weakening paywalls everywhere

A growing number of news sites block incognito readers, figuring they’re probably trying to get around a paywall. But a change from Google will again let people reset their meter with a keystroke.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 21, 2019

“First-generation fact-checking” is no longer good enough. Here’s what comes next

Plus: Updates from GlobalFact 6 and The Verge’s Facebook content moderation expose No. 2.

Christine SchmidtJune 18, 2019

Meet TikTok: How The Washington Post, NBC News, and The Dallas Morning News are using the of-the-moment platform

“When I was a beat reporter, I used to look at national news and say: How can I localize this? I feel like this is the other way around: What’s going on in our community that people can relate to across all platforms?”

Laura Hazard OwenJune 14, 2019

Populists prefer television to online news — but are sticking to Facebook as others leave

“In the U.S., though there are some outlets with populist audiences — such as Fox and HuffPost — it is clear that the majority of outlets have audiences that are predominately non-populist left, such as The New York Times.”

Laura Hazard OwenJune 7, 2019

ProPublica’s Facebook-monitoring political ad tool (which Facebook fought) is alive again with a new home at the Globe and Mail

“Our effort here is to understand what political speech looks like in Canada when it comes to advertising.”

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